The whole staff had a great day with Dr Barbara Watson. The focus was on literacy and accelerating the learning of our students in this area. It was a full on day where Barbara constantly challenged our thinking in many areas. One of the 'Key' things coming back to was 'UNDERSTANDING'. It so essentail that we are always ensuring our students understand WHILE they are reading, that they are THINKING when they are reading. So our new message to our students is 'you have to think while you read'. Reading is understanding.
Barbara stressed to us that we need to use strategies that allow students to be able to work at new learning rather than struggling showing they can do old learning. She also spoke about that we need to engineer our programmes to the interests of our students to engage, catch and inspire.
We all knew that we where in for a special treat and Barbara did not let us down.
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